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New York Takes Bold Stance Against Hospital Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Hospitals will be required to implement comprehensive cybersecurity programs, including vulnerability assessments, access controls, and security awareness training for their employees. I view it as a welcomed step in helping security teams secure the funding and support they need to keep our heads above water.

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The Security Industry is Protecting the Wrong Thing

Security Boulevard

When the security industry talks about a data breach, often the first question asked involves the state of the victim’s network security – not the breach of data. It’s because organizations have their security priorities backward, and that needs to change. Why is this?

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Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices

Malwarebytes

Data encryption for data at rest and in transit. Sponsored by CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the.gov domain comes with several key security benefits: MFA is enforced on all accounts in the.gov registrar, and user accounts cannot use passwords that have been found in known data breaches.

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Reducing Human Error Security Threats with a Remote Workforce

Security Boulevard

While there is no way to guarantee against data breaches, securing the human element can help mitigate security threats and improve the integrity of your remote work systems. In a survey of UK&I CISOs, 55% said that human error posed a risk no matter what protections are in place.

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Ransomware Protection: 8 Best Strategies and Solutions in 2021

Spinone

No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. We know it firsthand – helping them to keep data safe is our job as a SaaS data protection company. Weak password policy is the reason behind up to 81% of data breaches.

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Vulnerability Risk Management: Making the Move beyond Compliance

NopSec

We have installed SIEMs, firewalls, IDPs, vulnerability scanners, malware and virus detection, authentication, identity and access management systems, data loss prevention technology, encryption, sandboxes, anomaly detection tools, phishing and spam prevention. All this, and we continue to see daily headlines about data breaches.

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The first anniversary of the GDPR: How a risk-based approach can help you achieve GDPR compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In the case of legitimate interests, a business must be able to prove to EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) that the collection of personal information is essential for fulfilling a specific service to its customers, and the business can only keep the personal data for as long as it takes to fulfill that service.

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